Aiptasia experiment

[blout]

OK OK OK you guy's don't seem to get it. I want to keep the Aiptasia. The Zoes I have are just a few small polips I got them at my LFS for $3 there are only about 10 polips in all and they are scattered though the tank. I personally think the Aiptasia are kinda pretty. I want to see if they can be "taimed" in a small tank . It's not a true Nano It's just a 5 gallon I got at Wal-mart with a built in light. I only have 1 damsel 1 camel shrimp and a hermit crab in the tank along with a nice little rubble pile thats full of pods and worms and a huge chunk of LR. If the Aiptasia get out of hand they would be VERY easy to get at to give 'em a dose of Joe's Juice and get them under controll. I'm mostly concerned with my pods and worms and the few small serpent stars I've seen in the rubble pile . Do I have to worry about the Aipasia eating these??

ive seen aptasia eat pods and try to eat one of my hermits but i think my hermit was to strong for it but i have also herd of small fish being taken by aptasia

 

[Navarre]

if you are thinking of wiping out an infestation with joes juice then your tank is at risk. 5 gallons is not even a puddle and the dead or dying apitasia with joes juice will increase bioads to unnacceptable levels.

 

[Raki]

if you are thinking of wiping out an infestation with joes juice then your tank is at risk. 5 gallons is not even a puddle and the dead or dying apitasia with joes juice will increase bioads to unnacceptable levels.

I have 2 now if they become a problem I can easily get them out of the tank there is nothing they can hide in and only one 5lb hunk of LR they can attach thenselfs to I can easily replace the entire volume of water when I do a waterchange on my 125 gallon tank. This is actually where I got the water from when I set up the 5 gallon . The hardest thing to do would be to catch the lone damsel and that would be easy enough if I just took out most of the water first. I'm going ahead with this Idea if my tank blows up you can all say "I told you so" . And I'll be out more time than money. I'm sure the damsel will do just fine.

 

[tragikmagik]

OK...I a 55 gallon FOWLR and i have one of these Aiptasia on one peice of live rock that i got. It was really small when i got it, so i was not sure what it was. I kinda stumbled across it in a magazine in the "Bad Hitchikers" section. Is there anything else that resmebles this? Because the picture that i seen had little spots on the end of the tenticles and mine is just one solid color of a almost blood red to brown color and is also semi-transparent. It has not reproduced at least not that i know of, its the only one. But to get rid of them could you pull the LR out and take a drill and drill out the hole that it is in, rinse it and put it back?

 

[Raki]

I got one small one out of my sump with my turkey baster just sucked him right up and squirted him out in the sink. (now he's off to the Delaware River)